Establishment of a multidisciplinary concussion program: impact of standardization on patient care and resource utilization.

摘要: Object Recent legislation and media coverage have heightened awareness of concussion in youth sports. Previous work by the authors' group defined significant variation care management children with concussion. To address this variation, a multidisciplinary program was established based on uniform protocol, emphasis community outreach via traditional sources Internet. This retrospective study evaluates impact standardization resource utilization before after large regional pediatric hospital center. Methods included all patients younger than 18 years age evaluated for sports-related between January 1, 2007, December 31, 2011. Emergency department, sports medicine, neurosurgery records were reviewed. Data collected demographics, injury details, clinical course, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool-2 (SCAT2) scores, imaging, discharge instructions,...